Each year the cover of Capital City Visitor, published by Illinois Times, features a portrait of Abraham Lincoln by a central Illinois artist. This time we decided to hold a contest as a way of finding the best, freshest Abe possible, while offering exposure to local talent. The first place winner was Kevin Atterberry but […]
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springfield 66 poem #1
springfield 66 poem #1 busy time this fri eve in springfield route 66 gala already begun hard to get to the old pharmacy to see tom handy’s photos of palms and their latticed shadows jim hawker’s unforgettable bored child embracing a curb it was like those mazes in a kid’s puzzle book you start out […]
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Art weekend! Tonight: DEMO Project, tomorrow night, The Pharmacy
It’s a big weekend for the visual arts in Springfield, with openings at the DEMO Project tonight and The Pharmacy’s 10th group exhibition on Saturday. The DEMO Project (732 North Fourth Street) is celebrating its one year anniversary with a unique and exciting exhibit by Carla Bengtson, head of the art department at University of […]
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Creative camerawork
PHOTO BY JAMES HAWKER There’s a new gallery in town! 1227 is located at 1227 S. Pasfield Ave., behind The Pharmacy. Five local photographers Lou Fremgen, Tom Handy, James Hawker, Greg Laun and John Record, a group known as Next Friday, having met the last Friday of the month for the past year to discuss […]
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Wall sculpture
DISillusion is the name of the art exhibit by Springfield artist Adam G. Perschbacher on display at the Anne Lloyd Gallery in downtown Decatur starting March 1. An opening reception is planned for March 7 and includes hors d’oeuvres, beverages and live music. The 20-piece exhibit is the newest and most complex geometric abstractions from […]
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Laborless weekend starts with End Times Trio and friends
If you read my last blog post, we are on a laborless journey through the weekend to Labor Day. We opened the weekend with free jazz at The Pharmacy, Thursday night. It was energizing. There were fireworks going off in my brain. The first person I met was an Illinois Times reader who saw the […]
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Laborless stroll into the holiday
OK. If you’re so busy or brain dead you forgot you get a three-day weekend this weekend (like I did), you need to read this stuff below: Tonight, 7 p.m., at The Pharmacy a jazz show with Lucas Collins from N.Y. on percussion and Albert Wildeman from Chicago on the upright bass and End Times […]
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Epsom
What’s an Epsom? Dare we ask this Springfield-based experimental and adventurous trio consisting of Scott Faingold (vocalizations, lyrics), Steven Sgro (noises, guitars) and Tim Harte (drums, drums, drums)? The band began in May of 2012 when the former drummer of NIL8 and local roustabout, Gary “Walnuts” Swaggerty communicated to Faingold these fateful words: “We need […]
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Group specs
The Pharmacy art collective opens its latest one-night show on Saturday, July 13 featuring member works and the work of two Peoria artists, Josh Cox and Sarah Nesbit. Cox will show his multimedia installation fashioned out of cardboard and light, The Immediate is No Longer Than Impression. Nesbit’s Simultaneous Space incorporates memory and photographs. Pharmacy […]
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Strange sonic rumblings at the Pharmacy (tonight)
I once took two different women to see the same band a month or so apart. It was a group whose music I really enjoyed, but I suppose it would generally be considered difficult– noisy, discordant and exploratory, fusing elements of avant-garde jazz and punk rock in a theatrical way that was as much about […]
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Heil, high and hi-fi
During a recent conversation with Illinois Times blogger Scott Faingold, I mentioned that National Record Store Day coincided with what has become national “weed” day (Huffington Post has a good reference article on how 420 became significant in pot culture). Scott, utilizing his acclaimed collection of facts and figures, added Hitler’s birthday to the April […]
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Visual virtuosos
zthe Pharmacy shines again. Go swiftly into the good July 14 night, and get absorbed in the third art exhibition in The Pharmacy’s warehouse on Pasfield Street. On display will be the work of Pharmacy artists, including many new members’ pieces, alongside the canvases of dazzling founder Andrew Woolbright. An installation by UIS professors, Shane […]
